the hopeful

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we learn that the heart is the same size as the fist, but we keep forgetting they don’t have the same functions.

Rudy Francisco, “Helium” (via buttonpoetry)

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I suppose we wear our traumas the way the guillotine wears gravity; our lovers’ necks are so soft.

Andrea Gibson - “Prism”

Andrea Gibson, featuring at Button Poetry Live, April 2017. Become a member! Support Button Poetry.

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How Do You Raise a Black Child? From the dead. With pallbearers who are half as young as their faces suggest and twice the oxen they should be.

Cortney Lamar Charleston - “How Do You Raise a Black Child?” (Motionpoems)

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